Duncan Cameron wrote:
>  >
>  >Since version 0.30, it provides SAX2 handlers, so it can transform
>  >documents parsed by any Perl SAX2 conformant parser.
>  >Tested with XML::SAX::PurePerl and XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser.
>  
>  Works with XML::SAX::Expat too!

good news! 
I'm also interested to hear about any SAX parser/driver/generator that
supports LexicalHandler feature, so I can give the lexical handler a
test. 

>  
>  It seems to be astoundingly fast. I've run Matt's benchmark.pl
>  and Xalan is generally 2/3/4x the throughput of LibXSLT,
>  which is itself slightly faster than Sablotron. But on some
>  test cases Xalan is 15x the throughput. This is on a Win98
>  machine so the meaurements are not going to be necessarily
>  accurate or repeatable.

So the result is quite platform dependent. Thanks for running the
xsltmark on win98 and reporting back the result. 
Some time ago I did the benchmark on Linux, RH 6.1 (or 6.2, not sure),
using benchmark.pl which has been modified to use dgnorm, instead of
XML::XPath, since I'm not patient enough to wait for the result :-)
Somehow, the comparator speed seems to affect the benchmark result. 

My result was XML::LibXSLT (based on libxml2) is the speed king,
followed by XML::Xalan. I also ran Saxon, using the original xsltmark
driver of course, which is in Java. Saxon finished third. XML::Sablotron
fourth, and failed on several tests. 

>  
>  The only problem was having to download a 23Mb Apache Xalan
>  Win32 distribution.  Wouldl it be possible to bundle the

That's called bandwidth problem :-)

>  appropriate dll's (there seem to be 12 Xalan dlls and one
>  Xerces dll, in total about 3Mb) into the Perl package?

Perhaps I can do it for Xalan 1.3. Or maybe someone else can maintain
this win32 ppm package? 
All you need is MSVC++ + SP3 + dinkumware fixes, and.. bandwidth :-)

rgds,
Edwin.

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